MushTV - Providing IPM RESEARCH
From the outset, the MushTV network has worked hard to find research solutions for the mushroom industry to Trichoderma and Virus threats. After a series of dissemination events around Europe, Dr. Helen Grogan gives us an overview of the successful
outcomes and the challenges ahead. By Dr. Helen Grogan, MushTV Co-ordinator, Teagasc, Ireland
helen.grogan@
teagasc.ie
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ushTV is a network of 18 compost producers, grower associations, businesses and research organisations
from across Ireland, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Poland, all working together to tackle real industry concerns. In 2011, the Consortium was successful in securing €2.5 million of EU FP7 research funding to find ‘solutions for the mushroom industry to threats from Trichoderma and Virus’. This is where the MushTV name comes from - Mushroom research on Trichoderma and Virus - it is not a mushroom TV channel, as some have thought, however a video of the project will be available to view from May 2015 on the MushTV website (
www.mushtv.eu)!
At the outset of the project, one of the key challenges facing the European mushroom industry was the regulatory obligation to adopt an ‘Integrated Pest Management’ (IPM)
approach to pest and disease control. The EU legal requirements were outlined in the Sus- tainable Use of pesticides Directive 2009/128/ EC (SUD), and individual countries had to then enforce what are known as the ‘Sustainable Use of pesticides Regulations’. The underlying principles of the SUD regulations are to safe- guard human health and the environment, but it does require a change in attitude by composters and growers towards pest and disease manage- ment. The objectives of MushTV were to provide information and solutions that were compatible with an IPM ethos.
IPM Solutions
Integrated Pest Management is described as ‘a program of prevention, monitoring, and control which offers the opportunity to eliminate or reduce the use of pesticides, and to minimise the risk to human health and the environment’. Managers and technical staff must have a
‘Brown Cap Mushroom Disease’ is associated with the MVX complex of viruses, which causes white mushrooms to turn brown and loose quality.
‘Compost green mould’ caused by Trichoderma (photo PRI).
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